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Roving Periscope: Arraigned, surrendered, arrested—Trump predicts ‘Armageddon’ under Biden

April 5, 2023 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: After his surrender and arrest, former US President Donald Trump, 76, on Wednesday claimed the planet could suffer from a nuclear-charged Third World War under his successor Joe Biden, whom he also accused of receiving USD 10 million from China. Trump, who made history by becoming the first American President […]

English

Roving Periscope: ‘Pakistani men abuse English women, kids’ says British Home Secy

April 4, 2023 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: British Home Secretary Suella Braverman’s said on Sunday that Pakistan-origin men’s ‘grooming gangs’ abuse White English girls and children. Indian-origin Braverman, known for her uncompromising stand on illegal migrants, came down heavily on Pakistani-origin men whom she alleged harmed White English girls in Britain. Some British Pakistanis were running child […]

Business

Post-pandemic recovery: WB, ADB lower India’s FY24 growth forecast

April 4, 2023 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Two international agencies, the World Bank and Asian Development Bank, have downgraded their GDP-based economic growth rates for India for the current financial year (2023-24) by 30 to 80 basis points, respectively, the media reported on Tuesday. While the World Bank lowered the FY24 growth forecast from 6.6 percent projected […]

Business

Roving Periscope: As Finland joins NATO, the US ‘engages’ India too

April 3, 2023 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: With Turkiye also ratifying Finland’s entry as the 31st member-nation of the US-led North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the spotlight may now have shifted to India: Is the South Asian country, currently the world’s fifth largest economy, the next in line? In any case, the ambit of NATO—confined to the US, […]

English

Roving Periscope: Academia against Hindus, says Georgia Assembly as it passes resolution against Hinduphobia

April 1, 2023 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: While the anti-BJP Opposition parties and their ‘ecosystem’ in India routinely accuse the ruling party of fanning Hindutva, the Georgia General Assembly in the United States became the first American state to pass a legislative measure condemning Hinduphobia and anti-Hindu bigotry, the media reported on Saturday. In a resolution, the […]

Business

Business: India, and Malaysia can now trade in the Indian rupee

April 1, 2023 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: The Western sanctions against Russia after it invaded Ukraine in 2022 have pushed several countries to trade in mutually beneficial currencies to skirt the use of US dollars and bypass supply chain constraints. With the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) allowing banks in 18 countries to trade in Indian rupees, […]

Business

Roving Periscope: After the sentence, Trump may face finger-printing, mug shots

March 31, 2023 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Donald Trump, 76, who became the first former US President to be indicted in a case, will be fingerprinted and have his mug shots taken like an ordinary criminal defendant when he comes to New York State Supreme Court next to face the charges. The 45th US President lamented that […]

Defence

Israel: Massive protests force Netanyahu to pause ‘judicial overhaul’

March 29, 2023 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: For the first time since it came into existence in 1948, Israel, the tiny Middle Eastern country of just nine million people, is facing its worst political crisis with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu introducing a controversial “judicial overhaul” that would potentially make even the Supreme Court redundant—and against which not […]

Business

Roving Periscope: Pak-origin Humza Yousaf becomes Scotland’s First Minister

March 29, 2023 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: One may call it the beginning of a ‘West India Company,’ as young leaders with origins in the Indian subcontinent are now ruling the United Kingdom, and its pro-Independence part, Scotland, in what is a role reversal of the erstwhile East India Company (EIC) which ruled South Asia from 1765 to […]

Business

China: In a historic overhaul, Jack Ma’s Alibaba splits into six units

March 28, 2023 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: When Jack Ma, the multibillionaire and the second-best-known Chinese worldwide after President Xi Jinping, was spotted in a recent photograph after a long time, market watchers, who study such rare Chinese symbolism, concluded something fresh was up at his Alibaba Group. Within days, Ma’s Alibaba Group announced its new plans: […]